The good folks at the World Fantasy Awards have nominated The Broken Man for their novella award this year — which means I’ll have a good excuse to hit the World Fantasy Convention San Diego this October. (Hey, it’s San Diego, why not?) What’s The Broken Man? Why, it’s my new (and nicely short) novella from the UK horror/scifi/fantasy publisher PS Publishing. You can get the Kindle version here – and the old-fashioned dead-tree version here. What’s it about? About 60 pages. A gorgeous hardback, in fact, with a little surprise waiting in the endpapers, and an original painting on the cover, and lots of death and sex inside. How can you resist?
A promising cinema director in his long-lost youth, Hollywood mogul Gary Rivoli now finds himself at the helm of his 33rd low-budget horror flick, The Broken Man. But number 33 is posing a problem: he seems to have hired a real-life witch to build his new monster — or at least there’s something decidedly creepy about Alice White, about the new creature as it comes into being, and about Gary’s beautiful life as it slides horribly, and terrifyingly, away from him. How long can he survive in a monster movie come to life — and at what cost?
